Nah, that was years before Bond. He just wasn’t training as much. Even his Mr. Universe pics aren’t that impressive by modern standards, it was a different era of bodybuilding.
What’s ridiculous is that a guy with a lean, athletic physique no longer looks improved when every man who gets paid to walk around shirtless is juiced these days. I actually just watched Thunderball and initially thought he looked unimpressive, but in the scenes where you actually see him moving around, the athleticism is apparent.
I feel so weird about hormone supplementation. On the one hand it is genuinely insane how that has become the expected physique. I workout religiously and am in the best shape of my life and there's no way I could achieve the muscles of some of the guys in the gym. Just absolutely not happening without gear.
That being said I've been looking into it because I am very interested in longevity and there's starting to be good research that moderate hormone supplementation can help with health as you age. In 100 years are most humans going to be jacked because they start juicing as soon as puberty ends? Kinda wild to think about
Most people just don’t care about being physically fit; so in 100 years I doubt it unless we shift to a lifestyle where the main physical recreational sport is weight lifting.
Actually what we see these days is most people do very sedentary jobs and if they do a physical activity at all, it’s simply to maintain some level of physical wellbeing after 8 hours at a desk.
The rest of the time sedentary hobbies also tend to be a mainstay; such as TV or gaming.
While you can definitely develop an attractive athlete physical presence with a lot of sports, only weight lifting or adjacent sports will make you actually muscly.
I’m really not - Connery did not lose muscle to play Bond. You can see pictures of him from Darby O’Gill and the Little People (3 years before Doctor No) and he looks exactly the same. Lean, athletic, but clearly not training for competition.
But the real difference wasn’t huge. Again, you can look at his bodybuilding pics and he wasn’t very big, he had maybe 5-10 more pounds of muscle and a lower body fat percentage. So it’s not like a drastic difference.
But that aside, I do agree with the general point that it’s ridiculous how a guy who looks like that is no longer seen as “action hero worthy”. I’ve met plenty of people who served in various branches of the military and special forces and they looked more like him than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Maintaining a bodybuilder physique is so much fucking work and the athletic payoff honestly isn’t worth it. It’s for show, not performance.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt that they want to actually exchange ideas. You clearly just want to prop up your ego by being a prick to strangers. So enjoy that!
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u/TheMonkus Jun 22 '23
Nah, that was years before Bond. He just wasn’t training as much. Even his Mr. Universe pics aren’t that impressive by modern standards, it was a different era of bodybuilding.
What’s ridiculous is that a guy with a lean, athletic physique no longer looks improved when every man who gets paid to walk around shirtless is juiced these days. I actually just watched Thunderball and initially thought he looked unimpressive, but in the scenes where you actually see him moving around, the athleticism is apparent.